Quotes About Peace

Failure's sleeve cannot help but brush against the back of gratified desires and insatiability is inevitably left to gaze with smoldering eyes into the wise, peaceful eyes of a person who finds satiation within himself.

In a Christian home, there's something special. It's called grace.

A little quiet contemplation is a good way to begin the day.

Striving and surrender are not compatible. If you are overeager to achieve something, notice the force of your intention. Watch your faster breathing and feel your tenser muscles. This clear observing, this quality of attention, can take you to a state of relaxed awareness.

More than ready...Because God's got this.

She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.

I give you a small serenity.

It made her laugh - weeding with her fingernails - and the real weight of the earth comforted her.... She knew this garden would do it's best for her. It didn't matter how she knew.

It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind.

And then there's this strange vast serenity that seems to come from the fact that he doesn't feel he has to prove anything.

There was, of course, another alternative to this endless, pointless killing - peace. Achieving peace depended on a recognition by all the participants that the war was not worth fighting, or that all that could be achieved had been achieved and the argument should be promptly transferred to the conference table. Given the benefit of hindsight and the losses so far, by the end of 1915 this seems the obvious alternative to more slaughter but that was not how it appeared at the time.

Peace negotiations began, or were at least initiated, almost as soon as the war began, but by 1915 they had led nowhere. The nations of Europe were not yet sick of killing and at the end of 1915 there was no doubt in anyone's mind that the fighting would go on.

Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.

I repeat, 'I am strong, able and calm.

Forgiving someone who has wronged you is actually a selfish act rather than a selfless one.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

If you care for your mind, if you nurture it and if you cultivate it just like a fertile, rich garden, it will blossom far beyond your expectations. But if you let the weeds take root, lasting peace of mind and deep inner harmony will always elude you.

mantra is a phrase that is designed to free the mind.

Learn to Be Silent

he who serves the most, reaps the most, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. This is the way to inner peace and outer fulfillment.

I stopped needing to be available to everyone all the time

create a private life strong in ethics, rich with marvelous beauty and unyielding when it comes to the protection of your inner peace.

you want to live a more peaceful, meaningful life, you must think more peaceful, meaningful thoughts.

first strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of Solitude.